College Board Description of this year's APES exam! 5/07
Topics We didn't really discuss in class but would be good to review
El Nino and weather patterns (see book, look online) - think about how global warming could change current weather patterns.
Natural Disasters (i.e. Hurricane Katrina, Tsunami): see book chapter, Katrina links below
Fishery Management - see book
Forest Management - see book
Nuclear Power - chapter in book that you read is good. Also look at PGE webpage about Diablo Canyon
Minerals - major ones, how they are mined, what they are used for. See book chapter
Basic ecoonomics - supply and demand curves, etc. See chapter in your book.
Major environmental legislation: bone up on big obvious things - endangered species act, clean air act, clean water act, etc. Here is a good review source! Legislation Summary
FREE RESPONSE PRACTICE - Wed 5/9/07 Do Questions 1 and 2
FREE RESPONSE RUBRIC for Q1: IS Our Seafood Safe?
Free Response: ANWR (2005)
Free Response: Fishery Management (2006)
Free Response: Mining, (2005)
Free Response: Estuary (2003)
Free Response: Endangered Species (2003)
Here are some from earlier years!
Ecological Methods (definately take a stab at these!)
Practice Quizzes (online) from Cunningham (different text than ours)
APES Glossary - tons of terms you should theoreticlly know. This is from someone else's website.....
Environmental Impacts of Hurricane Katrina:
NOAA - more detailed
NRDC - incredibly rich resource providing info on recent environmental quality test results in New Orleans
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Practice Free Response Questions